By Dr. LeRoy Boikai | President/CEO
Countries like Ghana, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast are adopting clean cookstoves more quickly than Liberia in the West African region. Unfortunately, the widespread use of charcoal and firewood in Liberia continue to negatively impact its virgin rainforest through rapid deforestation.
Village Improvement Project aims to contribute to the adoption of clean cookstoves in Liberia by placing a few prototype rocket cookstoves in use with two families in a village.
Results from the limited field test so far have shown markedly better results for the rocket stoves compared to coal pots and three-stone fire pits. Participants used very little wood, experienced lower levels of smoke and faster cooking time.
The next step in our plan is to obtain funds to expand the field test to more village families. With support from donors and securing grant funding will allow us to build additional rocket stoves to donate to additional families for a more comprehensive field study to determine how adoptable clean cookstoves are for the Liberian market.
Thanks to all our donors for the continued support to enable village communities in Liberia to transition to a more sustainable and improved cooking method which provides a range of potential positive effects such as better health outcomes, less deforestation, and improving gender equality by preventing women and girls from spending much of their time gathering wood for fuel.
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